Several people – including Mary Parks of Blacksburg – have driven from their workplace to the day-care center to pick up the child they’d thought they’d dropped off, never noticing the corpse in the back seat.
An award winning journalist, the only one to have will two Pulitzers for features, this being one of them: “here’s a horrifying thing that can happen to anyone.”
Oh if only we were perfect little robots, amirite?
If we peel back your anonymity and examine your life from birth to death, yes, I’m sure you never had close calls and never did dumb shit, is that right?
I know I’m being pedantic but murder requires intent, it seems that the majority of these cases are manslaughter, still illegal though and just as sad.
I see it’s time to repost this:
Fatal distraction, a Pulitzer Prize winning article
Tearjerker article about how parents who’ve been through this felt, why it happens, and what car manufacturers could do to prevent it.
Archive link: http://web.archive.org/web/20240617002402/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/fatal-distraction-forgetting-a-child-in-thebackseat-of-a-car-is-a-horrifying-mistake-is-it-a-crime/2014/06/16/8ae0fe3a-f580-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20140729204858/http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/fatal-distraction-forgetting-a-child-in-thebackseat-of-a-car-is-a-horrifying-mistake-is-it-a-crime/2014/06/16/8ae0fe3a-f580-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html
FUCK ME
I didn’t want to read the article because I expected horrible things written in there. Like this.
Thanks
I couldn’t finish reading, I am already a mess of tears 10 paragraphs in. I cannot imagine the pain and guilt…
It still makes me tear up every time I skim it, yeah.
Same.
The headline:
YES! It is and it should be. It’s neglect! There’s no reason to keep reading when the headline asks a bullshit question.
I also wouldn’t read an article titled, Should murder be wrong?
An award winning journalist, the only one to have will two Pulitzers for features, this being one of them: “here’s a horrifying thing that can happen to anyone.”
Some random dipshit: “what an idiot.”
An award winning journalist: “here’s a horrifying thing that can happen to anyone.”
What kind of dumb fuck logic do you have in your brain?
Is closer to the actual facts being discussed in the article, which is a very basic and simple thing to understand and fits the headline well
Yeah, and drunk people are incredibly likely to do dumb shit.
Don’t do dumb shit and stop killing everyone.
Oh if only we were perfect little robots, amirite?
If we peel back your anonymity and examine your life from birth to death, yes, I’m sure you never had close calls and never did dumb shit, is that right?
I haven’t beaten or murdered anyone, that’s for sure.
Good little robot! If only that was how probability and juggling life worked.
Are you this toxic and miserable in real life or are you just chronically online?
You’re defending murders and wife beaters and I have a miserable life? Ok lol.
Buddy if you breath too hard that straw man is gonna fall over.
The jail is waiting for you.
There’s a reason the article won a Pulitzer. Maybe you could give it a try
“That article can’t change my mind because I can’t read!”
I know I’m being pedantic but murder requires intent, it seems that the majority of these cases are manslaughter, still illegal though and just as sad.